CHAPTER XXXIV
Mr. Wenren is a teacher of policy, and women generally don't pay much attention to this subject, and they read other books when they take this course.
Because the strategy is the content of the imperial examination, women do not need it.
Jiang Ruofu listened carefully and kept writing, Wen Qingcen supported his face with his hands and looked at her sideways.
Seeing that she was tired of writing, he put down the pen, held the pen and held the finger joints white, looking at the white slender fingers dangling in front of him, she looked a little tired, and he couldn't help but want to rush forward to rub her wrist for her.
Jiang Ruofu rested for a while, picked up the pen and continued to write, still listening carefully.
The rain outside had gradually stopped, and the light was much more abundant, and Mr. Wenren's blurry old eyes could finally see the students below.
The girls still looked down at other books, but they saw that Jiang Ruofu was listening very carefully, and most of the paper in front of them had already been written in very small characters.
Mr. Wenren was relieved and nodded approvingly.
Spread his eyes and looked around Jiang Ruofu again, but saw Wen Qingcen, who should have listened to the lecture well, looking at Jiang Ruofu with a foolish smile.
Mr. Wenren sighed, shook his head, coughed a few times, and said,
"This subject is very important, especially for men, if they want to take the imperial examination, they must not be bad."
After Mr. Wenren finished speaking, Wen Qingcen still looked at Jiang Ruofu and couldn't take his eyes off it.
And the girl didn't pay any attention to him.
The Sichuan lines between Mr. Wenren's eyebrows are a little deeper.
raised the book in his hand and smashed it at Wen Qingcen.
The book flew in the air and hit Wen Qingcen's shoulder with unmistakable accuracy.
Wen Qingcen was smashed, and looked at Mr. Wenren with a blank expression.
Mr. Wenren looked at him and said coldly,
"Wen Qingcen, do you hear what I said?"
Wen Qingcen hurriedly stood up, and temporarily glanced sideways at Jiang Ruofu's dense notes,
"Be consistent and end the text."
Mr. Wenren saw that he was smashed and looked at Jiang Ruofu, hating that iron could not become a steel road,
"I've been watching it for an hour, and I'm still watching!"
Everyone looked at Wen Qingcen one after another.
Wen Qingcen's face was thin red, and she secretly watched her reaction, but she looked through the curtain.
He looked away like a thief.
Heartburning.
Everyone just thought that Mr. Wenren was just saying that he was reading idle books in class.
After all, they are all reading, and among the men, there are also those who don't pay attention to policy, and reading an idle book is nothing.
The little guy who rang the bell in the school woke up the bell, and the sound spread throughout the school.
The other lecture rooms slowly walked out of the room.
Wen Qingcen hurriedly picked up Mr. Wenren's book, walked to the podium and respectfully presented it with both hands, his face was blushing,
"The lesson of the gentleman is that in the future, the students will try their best to restrain themselves."
Mr. Wenren took it angrily,
"You......"
The language has an unfinished meaning.
The sky slowly cleared, and Jiang Ruofu closed the book.
Jiang Lan sat in place, listening to the whispers of the Jiang family girls gathered next to her.
Listening to them guess whether Wen Qingcen liked Jiang Ruofu, whether Wen Qingcen said that sentence intentionally or unintentionally when he came.
Jiang Lanqian suddenly stood up and slowly walked to the side of those people,
"Naturally, it was intentional."
"Gongzi Wen proposed to my seventh sister, can it still be unintentional?"
And they were amazed,
"Propose?"
Jiang Lanqian was deliberately surprised,
"Don't you all know?"
"The wealth of the Jiang family is beyond the reach of the family, and it is used to hire my seventh sister as a wife, not to mention the ordinary three princes and nine kings, just say that it is the dowry of the emperor and grandson, and it may not be as good as this dowry."
The people could not believe their ears,
"Use the wealth of the clan to propose to Jiang Ruofu?"
They saw that Wen Qingcen was interested in Jiang Ruofu, but they never imagined that Wen Qingcen had already proposed to Jiang Ruofu, and even married him with the wealth of the family.
dropped out of Qingyun Academy for her and married her family.
The hearts of the people were sour, and they couldn't tell what it was.
Jiang Zi anxiously grabbed Jiang Lanqian's sleeve,
"You... Are you telling the truth? ”
Jiang Lanqian nodded and said,
"Nature is true. Could it be that I still have to fake such a big thing? Wen Gongzi came to the Inner History Mansion with the marriage book that day, and insisted that he would marry my seventh sister as his wife, not allowed to be a concubine, not allowed to marry, not allowed to have a flat wife, and not to take a break. ”
"It's all in the marriage book. Black and white, nail on the board. ”
Jiang Zi couldn't help but tremble between her lips and teeth,
"You mean, Gongzi Wen has already made up his mind to marry Jiang Ruofu?"
"He has even been hired, so he gave up the opportunity to study in Qingyun Academy and came to the Jiang Academy."
"It's all about...... For Jiang Ruofu? ”
Jiang Zi's voice couldn't help but be a little louder, and it spread to the back position.
Jiang Ruofu snapped the thin long brush in his hand.
Ink splattered onto her jade-white face, and the thorns of the sticks pierced into the palms of her hands.
Wen Qingcen saw that she suddenly broke the pen and plunged it into the palm of his hand, he suddenly lifted the bamboo curtain, anxiously knelt directly beside her leg, pulled her hand and looked at her palm,
"Jover, how are you?"
Jiang Ruofu didn't answer, but Wen Qingcen raised his eyes to look at her, and there was irrepressible nervousness in his voice,
"Sister Jofer?"
Jiang Ruofu wanted to withdraw his hand, but unexpectedly Wen Qingcen clenched it tightly.
She couldn't pull it out for a moment.
A few people who were still talking looked at each other,
"I really didn't expect that Gongzi Wen would propose to her."
"I also dropped out of Qingyun Academy and came here."
The words of the people are not finished,
And now seeing Jiang Ruofu bumping into it, he immediately rushed forward to check.
Why did Gongzi Wen treat the Jiang family, a contemptible concubine, so differently?
Wen Qingcen's genuinely anxious face fell into everyone's eyes, and everyone could read his nervousness and worry from the peachy eyes.
How much he likes to worry about the woman on the other side doesn't have to be described in words to let people know.
Jiang Zi's face was ugly, and she ran out crying.
Jiang Lanqian gritted her teeth, her eyes were gloomy than the dark clouds that had not yet dispersed in the distance, which made the atmosphere around her cold.
She stood not far away and looked at Jiang Ruofu, tears flashing slightly, even in the school where everyone didn't like Jiang Ruofu, she was still nervous and valued. There will even be people who drop out of Qingyun Academy just to come for her.
However, there will be people who nervously kneel beside her and hold her hand to ask.
And that day she was punished to stand, most of the sisters in the school knew her, but no one came to comfort her, she stood outside the school for a long time, she watched the sea of people flow by, all passed through her, occasionally glanced at her, politely said hello, but no one stopped to ask her why she stood there, why her eyes were red.
Jiang Ruofu withdrew his hand vigorously, and looked straight in the direction of Jiang Lanqian, his face was heavy,
"Don't bother with the son, Ruofu is fine."
Jiang Lanqian's eyes also fell on Jiang Ruofu unobstructedly, and the ridicule and alienation and disdain in his eyes were undisguised.
Jiang Ruofu held the half-truncated brush.
The ink marks on his face slowly slid down the side of his face like tear stains.
She was not deaf, but the distance between them, and even if she lowered her voice, she could hear her second sister talking about her marriage with those who didn't like her, and her tone was mocking and indifferent, like an outsider.
More like the other people who didn't like her.
I tried my best to choreograph her anecdotes, and to do my best to show that she was indeed a prostitute, with the inferiority of her biological mother, so that she could have something to talk about and blend in with the crowd.
Wen Qingcen saw Jiang Ruofu's slightly red eyes, he panicked, wiped her face with a handkerchief, and couldn't help but be nervous.
"Don't cry, Joff."
"What's wrong with you?"
Jiang Ruofu looked at Jiang Lanqian and suddenly sneered.
The smile was a little cold, as deep as the dark sky.
Jiang Lan sneaked away from Jiang Ruofu's gaze, did not look at her again, but turned around and continued to talk to those sisters.
It seems to say something more interesting.
Everyone's expressions were laughing and curious, and they all unconsciously gathered around Jiang Lanqian and surrounded her.
lowered his voice, didn't know what he was talking about, and frequently glanced at Jiang Ruofu a few times.
Jiang Ruofu didn't look at it again, but lightly took the handkerchief in Wen Qingcen's hand, wiped the ink off his face, and his voice involuntarily became depressed and cold,
"Anything else?"
Wen Qingcen watched her blankly wipe the ink marks off her face,
"Nope."
Jiang Ruofu folded the veil up, took a long breath, and forced himself not to look at Jiang Lanqian's direction anymore
"I soiled Gongzi Wen's veil, and I washed it tomorrow and returned it to Gongzi, it's rude."
Wen Qingcen watched her fold his handkerchief and put it into the bookcase, the shadow of the tree outside the window shook people's hearts, and he was shaken by the swaying of his mind, and the shadow of the tree and her were sparse and stranded in the bottom of his eyes.
He could see God.
As soon as Jiang Shuyun turned around, he saw Wen Qingcen looking at Jiang Ruofu and looking at it, half-kneeling in front of her, holding a half-truncated wolf in his hand.
She was a little envious.
Wen Gongzi is really good to Ruofu.
Jiang Shuyun pressed and pressed the Gu family's invitation that was already wrinkled in his hand, and finally stuffed it into the drawer and didn't look at it again.
The other hand unconsciously moved slightly on the tree, outlining the shape of the Gu character.
He's back.
He's coming back soon.
But she didn't dare to see it.
——
When Jiang Ruofu went back, before she entered Qinghui Garden, she heard someone in the front yard report that someone had sent something to Miss Seven.
Jiang Ruofu let people take a look, and it turned out to be a whole box of satin jewelry.
The silk and jewelry didn't look like they had been carefully chosen, but more like they were in a hurry, and they sent the most expensive ones directly.
The jewelry is luxurious, the color is bright, and the jade is precious and rare.
Silk and satin are also complex and diverse weavers, without exception, are the most expensive and heavy work, only the most outstanding embroiderers in the market have this kind of craftsmanship.
I'm afraid that except for the weaving in the palace, no one can make more than the silk in front of him.
Jiang Ruofu couldn't help but be stunned.
These satins are almost as luxurious as the clothes of the world.
And most of them are complete sets of heads, and there are also some single hairpins, which are worth a lot just at a glance.
Jiang Ruofu wondered,
"Who sent all this?"
The messenger said,
"These are all sent by the Wen family, and the mother-in-law who sent the things said that women are the ones who please themselves, and it is a pity that Miss Seven has such a good appearance, and she only wears plain clothes and silver hairpins."
"And Miss, the simplicity of your dress makes Wen Gongzi feel distressed when he looks at it."
The previous words are all false, and only this one sentence is true.
It was Wen Qingcen who saw that Jiang Ruofu was dressed too plainly today, thinking that she didn't have many clothes and jewelry, so she hadn't arrived at the house yet, and Wen Qingcen ordered someone to choose the clothes and jewelry for her.
Jiang Ruofu lowered his eyes and looked over and saw the single hairpin in the first box.
Jasper prismatic flower double hairpin, golden beaded peach blossom hairpin, silver phoenix carved hairpin, dazzling, bright and glorious.
Especially the jasper prismatic double hairpin, which is the same as the silver hairpin that Jiang Ruofu has in his hair today, is a long hairpin.
But everywhere is exquisite, a touch of red in the middle of the jasper is skillfully carved into a prismatic flower, and the red and green part becomes a leaf and vine, the green vine leaves of the two flowers are entangled, all the way down, lifelike, the luster is clear.
This exceptional craftsmanship and materials are not easy to come by. What's more, the beads embellished in the stamens are also dazzling, like white. But when it looks at the light, it is transparent, with colorful pearlescent light.
Jiang Ruofu couldn't recognize what kind of beads it was.
Although it can be used to tie her hair in a bun today, compared to today's silver hairpin, which is so simple that there is no decoration, if the silver hairpin is a wildflower on the roadside, this hairpin is a rare and valuable peony.
Ordinary ladies may not be able to wear such luxurious hairpins on weekdays, but Wen Qingcen sent a box at one time, as if those hairpins don't cost money.
When he saw that she was dressed plainly, he was distressed.
Before she arrived, the clothes and jewelry he had sent arrived.
seemed to be waiting for her, asking her to dress up and use it immediately, for fear that she would dress up as simple as today.
On weekdays, looking at Wen Qingcen's dress, people will not think that he is the son of the richest man, but now that this rich man is a half-person-tall wooden box casually, Jiang Ruofu finally really feels the weight of the four words "son of the richest man".
Too extravagant, too flamboyant.
She doesn't deserve it.
After listening to the maid's words, Xiao Yu asked,
"Miss, what are you going to do with these satin jewelry?"
Jiang Ruofu pondered for a moment and said
"Put it all away."
The maid who delivered the things was puzzled,
"So many jewelry and clothes, Miss Seven, don't you use them? It's a shame to put it in this way, and it might be coveted in the storeroom. ”
Xiaoyu also said with pity,
"Yes, and Gongzi Wen has already come to the door to propose, you don't have to worry about so much in the future, Miss, if you put these things away and don't use them, Gongzi Wen will be disappointed if he knows."
Xiaoyu didn't have too many thoughts, but she just felt that since Gongzi Wen had proposed, it was already the best choice for her young lady, and this marriage was a certainty, Gongzi Wen was the husband-in-law of the young lady in the future, how could the young lady be so cold to Gongzi Wen.
What if it dislikes Mr. Wen?
Jiang Ruofu just glanced at the jewelry lightly and turned his head.
"Let's put it in the storeroom first."
The maid said urgently,
"But ......"
Jiang Ruofu said lightly,
"If you don't think it's good to keep it that way. So he found a few people to send these things back to Wen's house. ”
The maid hurriedly said,
"Miss, that's not what the slave meant."
The maid laughed flatteringly,
"Since you don't need it, it's naturally good to put it away."
The maid looked at Jiang Ruofu's face and changed the topic,
"The Gu family sent a post to you, hoping that you will go to the Gu family's flower banquet in a few days."
Xiao Yu was surprised,
"Gu family?"
"How can our young lady have something to do with the Gu family?"
"Which Gu family is it?"
The maid hurriedly said,
"Back to Sister Xiaoyu's words, it is to take care of the family. This post was also specially sent by Miss Gu. ”
Xiaoyu took the post curiously,
"This post of the flower banquet, is there anyone else besides our young lady?"
Maiden Road,
"Miss Shuyun has one, Miss Three has it, Miss Fourth has it, but Miss Two has ......"
The maid's procrastinating tone says it all.
In fact, Jiang Ruofu was not surprised, if it was the invitation handed over by Gu Yuling, then she was likely to be stained with Shu Yun's light.
Because she and Gu Yuling are only one-sided, they will not invite her to participate in a concubine.
Xu is Shuyun mentioned this matter, so he handed her and Mo Yin a post,
Thinking that the Inner History Mansion and Fengchang are both Jiuqing in name, Jiang Baohe is the daughter of Jiuqing, and there should also be one, so Jiang Baohe also has it.
And Jiang Lanqian and Shu Yun have never had any contact, so there is no such post.
Jiang Ruofu was silent,
That's fine, she doesn't really want to see her second sister too much lately.
"Miss Seven, Miss Gu specially instructed, saying that there will be a game of shooting lotus flowers at the banquet, and I am afraid that Miss will practice archery in advance. You don't have to be fine, as long as you can shoot at the target, you won't be embarrassed. Because women are also rare and good at riding and shooting, everyone just has fun. ”
When Jiang Ruofu heard this, he was a little apprehensive.
She doesn't know how to shoot arrows, let alone play a game of shooting lotus flowers.
She has been in the backyard for a long time and has little contact with people, and she has hardly attended any of the party banquets she should have.
Xiaoyu asked,
"Is it the game that the young ladies were playing last time when Chen Gongzi fell into the water?"
The maid smiled,
"Sister Xiaoyu is exactly what she said."
Xiao Yu was a little worried about Jiang Ruofu in her heart.
Her young lady has never learned archery, and she has never had the opportunity to do so.
If at the banquet, everyone has been learning to ride and shoot for a long time, and her young lady will definitely make people laugh.
Xiaoyu couldn't help but think of the scene when Jiang Baohe led twenty or thirty people to beat her young lady.
Although she didn't know why those people were lying on the ground in the end, she didn't feel how powerful her young lady was because of this.
The young lady doesn't know martial arts, that's something she knows.
Jiang Ruofu also hesitated in his heart.
If you want to go to this banquet, then this archery event is indispensable.
But if you don't go, this is an invitation from the Gu family, and you will offend the Gu family for no reason.
If she wanted to get out of the back house, this was obviously a good opportunity.
But now she has just entered the clan school, she is not familiar with everything, and her studies are very heavy, and she is afraid that she will not be able to find time to learn archery recently.
And for a while, she couldn't find a gentleman who could teach her archery.
Jiang Ruofu hesitated,
"I'll think again."
Jiang Ruofu sat by the screen window, thinking for a long time, afraid that he would make a fool of himself at the banquet, and that he would be ridiculed.
The most important thing is that I am actually afraid of meeting Chen Jing.
She didn't know how to face him now.
For Chen Jing, she looked at it with the mentality of a friend, and when she first met Chen Jing, she stayed by Chen Jing's side as a son and a friend.
Later, when she saw him again, she did not hesitate to jump into the cold pool to save him because of the relationship between her son.
She didn't expect Chen Jing to suddenly have feelings for her. didn't expect Chen Jing to marry her
For a moment, she was at a loss, and what she said was inevitably ugly, and I am afraid that Chen Jing will be difficult to face her now. If you meet at this banquet, it will inevitably be embarrassing.
She didn't want to get into trouble anymore in vain.
But this banquet was an opportunity she had been looking forward to for a long time.
In the past, she was not qualified to contact these banquets, so she did not have the opportunity to meet people outside and broaden her network.
She's always wanted to learn how to be comfortable with crowds, and that's a good start.